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    Facebook's influence on juror selection

    SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The legal system continues to lag behind technology advancements, and it could play a part in an upcoming jury selection.

    Right now there are no rules limiting what people put on their Facebook page while serving jury duty, but in cases where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty it's a major point of focus.

    Legal experts say lawyers are hiring jury consultants to comb through selected jury members to make sure they show no bias going in.

    Cheryl Hanna expects this will be especially true in the Michael Jacques jury selection.

    "Sometimes in those cases we see courts say, you know, we're either going to stop the trial or declare a mistrial because the jury has been engaged in some improper outside conduct that was discovered through the use of their Facebook page," she says.

    Hanna says your page likes -- and even the TV shows you watch can play a part in whether or not you can serve on the jury.

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    Facebook to delete beheading videos shared by members

    Facebook on Wednesday said it will delete beheading videos being shared at the leading social network as it re-evaluates its policy regarding whether such content is acceptable.

    The move came as a reversal for Facebook, which had been responding to complaints by refusing to intervene since the clips didn't violate the social network's policy because they were being shared to condemn decapitations.

    Facebook had equated sharing of the video at the social network to news organizations that broadcast graphic scenes to bring attention to and rally sentiment against violent acts.

    "We will remove instances of these videos that are reported to us while we evaluate our policy and approach to this type of content," Facebook said in an email response to an AFP inquiry.

    The turn-about reportedly came after the California-based social network's safety advisory board criticized the decision to leave the gruesome clips up at the website.

    The controversy centered on two videos that appeared to have been made in Mexico, and weapons used to behead victims included a chain saw and a knife, according to online reports.

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    Facebook posting raises alarm over sex offender

    Recent accusations about a Napa man released from state prison in November have gone viral on social media.

    However, Napa Police have not received new complaints about the man, Jefferson Charles Morton, Napa Police Capt. Jeff Troendly said Wednesday. Neither have the Napa County Sheriff’s Office nor the Napa County District Attorney’s Office, which receives complaints from law agencies.

    The Facebook post — which alleges offenses against women and urges Napans to arm themselves with knives, consider self-defense classes and be aware of their surroundings — may have led hundreds to click on a Napa Valley Register story on Morton from Sept. 26, 2009.

    As of Wednesday afternoon, the 2009 story had 2,244 page views since Aug. 1, making it the seventh most-viewed story this month at NapaValleyRegister.com.

    A registered sex offender because of two sexual battery convictions in 1994, Morton has served time in jail and state prison over the years, according to court records.

    He was last sent to state prison in 2010 after he was sentenced to a five-year term for tearing down fliers from businesses in September 2009 that alerted the public of his status as a registered sex offender.

    Police had posted the fliers at Napa businesses under the state’s sex registry law after two women reported “disturbing encounters” with Morton, including him approaching women on the street, pestering them with messages and saying “he had mistakenly been put on death row for the brutal murders of two women,” according to court documents.

    Morton was sentenced in April 2010 in connection with the 2009 incident, according to court records. He was released in November from prison on parole, said Bill Sessa, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections.

    The social media post that recently went viral on Facebook includes allegations of attacks against women jogging and walking alone along Linda Vista Avenue and at the Dry Creek area and dog park, allegations law enforcement representatives said were old.

    Court records show no convictions for these allegations, some of which were reported in the Napa Valley Register in 2005.

    Using Facebook, the Register contacted a woman this week who said she had posted an alert on Facebook regarding Morton after a co-worker brought a flier to work that made allegations against him.

    In July, a California Court of Appeal reversed five counts for which Morton was sentenced in 2010, including attempted criminal threats, resisting police and a count of burglary and theft. The original complaint included 17 charges with three special allegations for prior felony convictions, according to court records.

    Morton may be resentenced in August in Napa County Superior Court. However, his new sentence may be a moot point because Morton has served his time already. His next hearing on the resentencing is Sept. 5 in Napa County Superior Court.

    Morton could not be reached for comment for this story. His mother declined comment.

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    How murderers use Facebook ( … it’s not how you think).

    In November 2013, a Colorado man named Merrick McKoy took a selfie with his 19-month-old daughter and posted it to Facebook — before killing the baby and shooting himself.

    “Ima miss stall lol [sic],” he wrote on Facebook. “Don’t judge me had no choice.”

    The crime was tragic and horrifying, with or without the Facebook posts. But McKoy’s cheerful, kissy-faced selfie made it all the more disturbing — not only to McKoy’s friends and acquaintances, but also to criminologists, social scientists, legal commentators and other people who watch the fraught intersection of social relationships and crime. To these people, McKoy’s behavior wasn’t just a one-off case. It formed part of what looked, increasingly, like some kind of bigger social trend, a trend that included unsettling crimes from Australia to upstate New York.

    The media dubbed it “Facebook murder” — and an Internet bogeyman was born.

    “Blaming [Facebook] for these crimes,” scoffed criminologist Elizabeth Yardley, “is like blaming knives for stabbings.”

    Yardley would know. The director of Birmingham City University’s Center for Applied Criminology, Yardley and her colleague David Wilson just published the first-ever study of the “Facebook murder” phenomenon in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. The study analyzed 48 recent homicide and manslaughter cases in which Facebook played a starring role. And it concluded, perhaps surprisingly, that Facebook is indeed a tool in the modern murderer’s bag of tricks — but that social media in no way causes or enables criminal activity. In fact, Yardley and Wilson caution strongly against even using “Facebook murder” as a term.


    An image taken from the Facebook page of so-called “Facebook killer” Derek Medina. (AP)

    That’s because they found that, demographically speaking, murders that involve Facebook don’t differ greatly from murders that don’t. In both cases, the perpetrators are mostly male; the crimes frequently take place in homes; and the killer usually knows his victim — often romantically.

    Here’s the twist, though: Even if “Facebook murder” doesn’t constitute a new genre of homicide, the perpetrators themselves tend to fit one of six specific profiles, based on how they use the network to carry out their crimes. While some, like McKoy, announce their intentions on Facebook, others have used it to declare their guilt: Consider the so-called “Facebook killer” Derek Medina, who posted a picture of his wife’s body to the social network after a fight. Even more killers (or alleged killers) use the site to keep up on the life of a friend, partner or ex, a typology that Yardley and Wilson dub “the reactor.”



    Of these types, the “reactor,” “informer” and “antagonist” account for the vast majority of cases. Things that look more distinctly of-the-Internet — “predators” or “imposters,” say — make up only a fraction of the murders Yardley and Wilson studied.

    In some ways, that’s the most striking takeaway from this new research. When it comes to safety on social media, we’re frequently taught to fear ill-intentioned voyeurs or catfish or other predators lurking in the Internet depths; a recent episode of the TV show “Castle” spent an entire 45 minutes on the anonymous-social-media-friend-as-serial-killer plot. But it would seem that, in reality, these distinctly Internet-y villains are overblown. Of the 48 killers Yardley and Wilson studied, only 12.5 percent were “predators” — people who adopted a fake name and attempted to lure strangers in.

    Instead, the majority of “Facebook murders,” just like real-life murders, are committed by someone the victim already knows. For better or worse, the Internet has little to do with it.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...how-you-think/
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